Community Briefs

On Sunday, November 29, 2009, at approximately 0430 hours, officers from the Riverside Police Department attempted to stop a vehicle in the downtown area, believed to have been occupied by a wanted felon. The suspect vehicle failed to yield to the police units and a pursuit was initiated.During the pursuit, an occupant inside the suspect vehicle fired a weapon several times at the pursuing police units. Riverside Police Officers returned fire during the incident, which led them into Rubidoux, the unincorporated area of Riverside. The suspect vehicle came to rest on Twining St. and at least two adult subjects fled from the car.

During a search of the immediate area, information was developed that led to residences on Twining St. and Fort Dr. Members of the Riverside County Sherriff’s SWAT Team responded to both locations and after negotiations with the occupants at both locations, numerous subjects exited the residence and were detained.

Mark Wallace (30) and Lisa Marlene Mitchell (43), both of Riverside, were taken into custody and later booked into Robert Presley Detention Center on multiple counts of attempt murder on a police officer, weapons charges, felony reckless driving, and parole violation.

The names of the involved officers are not being released at this time. No one was injured from the exchange of gunfire between the officers and the suspect. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Detective Dave Smith at (951) 353 - 7103 or Detective Greg Rowe at (951) 373 - 7136.

CA Cars At Glen Avon Library – Kevin Nelson And Wheels Of Change

Glen Avon Library invites carlovers, friends, and families to meet author KEVIN NELSON and hear about his new book on Friday evening, December 4th (9244 Galena St. , Riverside, 92509).

Wheels of Change: From Zero to 600 m.p.h., the Amazing Story of California and the Automobile, has just been released by Heyday Books. Bring your vintage car and park it in a special reserved area for display before the program.

Show-up time for parking is 4:00 – 4:30 p.m.; program time is 5:30 p.m.

Glen Avon Regional Library manager Tracie Carignan says, “We are really happy to have Kevin Nelson coming to talk on this topic that interests so many people. A lot of people are just passionate about cars.”

Wheels of Change tells the extraordinary story of cars in California from the late 1890s to the mid-1960s, with fascinating text and over 100 vintage photographs.

Celebrating Southern California as the birthplace and center for car trends in the whole country, it traces the development of a dynamic car culture never seen before.

The book includes vignettes about Craig Breedlove, the first to break the 600 m.p.h. speed barrier in his Spirit of America jet car; Steve McQueen, sports car racer and professional actor who drove the greatest car-chase in movie history in the film, “Bullitt”; George Barris, King of the Kustomizers, a custom hot-rod

designer who influenced the look of cars across America; Barney Oldfield, glamorous race driver who first broke 60 m.p.h. on a racetrack in the early 1900s, and many more.

Nelson devoted three years to researching and writing Wheels of Change, driving thousands of miles around California on road trips to car shows, car museums, car clubs, racetracks, the El Mirage dry lakes area, and other significant spots in the state’s automotive history.

Books will be available for purchase at the event, and the author will be happy to sign them.

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